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This glossary provides terms and definitions for your review. It will help you to understand the language and terminology of the Business Intelligence industry and to better understand the markets, industries and needs served by the BI solution vendors and service providers.

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Glossary

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Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

An environment designed for, and dedicated to, providing a single, comprehensive view of the enterprise. It is a reliable source of consistent, contextual, and controlled information for tactical and strategic decision-making.

Enterprise Information System (EIS)

A category of applications and technologies for presenting and analysing corporate and external data for management purposes.

Enterprise Information Management (EIM)

Products and services that deliver physical and virtual data integration, data quality, and metadata management capabilities that ensure BI information is timely, accurate, and trustworthy. Enterprise information management is sometimes used in place of the more common term, Information management. Refer Information Management for more information.

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

Applications and services that help users align with strategy by streamlining the planning process, setting targets, and tracking key business metrics via management dashboards, scorecards, analytics, and alerting.

Enterprise Reporting

Enterprise reporting refers to large-scale report generation, usually achieved through the use of so-called business-intelligence software, and intended to deliver Information by means of the Internet or an Intranet.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

It is a software-driven technique that is intended to optimise the use and application of resources (project management) and manage mission-critical processes (such as workflows, time and expense reporting, collaboration, and Knowledge capture). An enterprise system enables a company to integrate data used throughout the organisation in functions such as finance, operations and logistics, human resources, and sales and marketing.

Enterprise Systems

Enterprise systems aim to overcome problems with incompatible Information storage and retrieval systems by introducing a common format for databases within companies. Proprietary processes need to be tailored to meet the needs of the enterprise systems, necessitating management and structural change.

Executive Information systems (EIS)

A precursor to business intelligence systems. Before the democratisation of information, customized views of business data was accessible only by a limited elite of senior executives via EIS systems. EIS systems were typically expensive to build and difficult to modify, hence slow to adapt to the rapidly changing needs of modern corporations.

Export

The ability to transform and format data in such a way that it can be used by another application. For optimal interoperability with your other business applications, the formats to which reports can be exported include PDF, Excel, Word, CSV, and HTML.

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)

Extraction, transformation, and loading (of data). Term used to describe the process of extracting data out of a production system, then transforming and cleansing it before loading it into a database dedicated to business intelligence. The term is also used to describe a software industry segment and set of software products designed to manage the data extraction, transformation, and loading process.

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